dishevel

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Etymology

From Old French descheveler (modern French écheveler).

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dishevel (third-person singular simple present dishevels, present participle disheveling or dishevelling, simple past and past participle disheveled or dishevelled)

  1. (transitive) To throw into disorder; upheave.
  2. (transitive) To disarrange or loosen (hair, clothing, etc.).
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 12:
      With garments rent, and haire discheueled, / Wringing her hands, and making piteous mone;
    • 1785, William Cowper, The Garden:
      Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind.
    • 1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 262:
      [...] the natural finish seems much less likely to show up the stains of travel which might soon dishevel the golden ochre or dark blue—especially the latter—[...].
  3. (intransitive) To spread out in disorder.

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